Improved pie-stamp



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT MARSHALL, OF DRAGUT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED PIE-STAM P.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,761, dated February 24, 1863.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that l, HERBERT MARSHALL, of Dracut, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful machine-the Pie- Stamp for the purpose of pressing together and stamping with a border the edges of the crusts of pies before the same are baked; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description.

The nature of my invention consists in the invention of the leverguide, (marked E on the drawings hereto annexed, respectively marked H in its combination, construction, and adaptation with the several parts of the machine, as represented in said drawings,) so that by means of which the edges of the crusts of pies, before the same are baked, can be easily and rapidly pressed together and stamped with a handsome borderor iigure, thereby saving much time, and doing it in a heater and more effective manner than it can be done by hand or the ordinary methods.

The following is a description of the machine, its parts, structure, and operation.

Figure l represents the front view, and Fig.

3 the side view, of the machine; Fig. 2, the handle and screw-swivel; E, the front view, Fig. 4 the lower end view, and Fig. 5 the upper end view, of the lever-guide.

A is the handle; B, the shaft; C, the pressing and stamping wheel; F, the screw-swivel joint, which consists of a screw sunk loose into handle A and made fast in shaft B. The pressing and bordering wheel is attached to shaft B by a screw passing through washer D on the front and another washer on the back of the wheel. The lever-guide is attached to the lower end of shaft B, and the upper fr( nt edge of it is sloped ofi" so as to pass in behind and next to the back rim of the wheel. The guide is concave in form on the front and rounded on each front edge of its ends, so that, in combination and connection with the pivot on which the wheel turns, and the swivel joint, the guide acts as a lever upon the edge of the plate in sustaining, revolving, and guiding the wheel in its revolutions around the plate. The hand driving the machine is kept 'in the same plane by means of the swivel-joint with out turning or wrenching the wrist.

The gures with which the crust is stamped are cut on the rim of the wheel, and may be of different kinds.

The machine is operated by hand, and can be made in whole or part 0f wood or other material.

The guide, in its operation and construction with the other parts of the machine, prevents the crust from pressing out beyond the edge of the plate, and leaves the pies with a smooth edge and handsome border.

What l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination and arrangement of the revolving handle A with the crimping-wheel C and curved lever-guide E, in the manner hereinbefore described, and represented in the accompanying drawings.

HERBERT MARSHALL.

Witnesses:

J. N. MARsEALL, G. D. WOODMAN. 

